February 19, 2016
Learning Exchange: FULL DAY SESSION - Design Thinking in Education
Learning Exchange
Sponsored by: the Wells Fargo Distinguished Professorship in Educational Leadership
Design Thinking in Education
Your group brings in a set of key users for whom the participants act
as designers, applying the lessons learned in the first session. In this
exercise the participants break into small “design teams” to tackle
an challenge important in higher education and rapidly prototype
innovative solutions to that challenge.
Date: Monday, March 21, 2016
Time: 10:00a.m.–3:00p.m.
Location: Croatan Building- Green Room
John Nash (PhD University of Wisconsin) is an Associate Professor
of Educational Leadership Studies at the University of Kentucky and
the founding director of the Laboratory on Design Thinking in
Education, or dLab. He’s also a director at the Center for Advanced
Study of Technology Leadership in Education, or CASTLE, also at the University of Kentucky.
John is a specialist in the design and prototyping of innovations in
education. He teaches a range of courses on design thinking, school
technology leadership, and school reform. His current research agenda focuses on the methods to design and prototype of innovations in education.
He has held faculty positions at Iowa State University and the
University of Texas at El Paso. As a social research scientist at
Stanford University, Nash held associate directorship positions in two laboratories: the Stanford Center for Innovations in Learning (SCIL), and the Stanford Learning Laboratory, where he managed interdisciplinary and international teams of research scientists examining the effects of innovative technologies on learning.
Space is Limited
Please RSVP to Matthew Militello
Wells Fargo Distinguished Professor in Educational Leadership
militellom14@ecu.edu
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